La Crosse
city and county-seat of river and the Chicago, Milwaukee, and La Crosse co., Wis., on the Mississippi St. Paul, the Chicago and Northwestern and several other railroads; 18 miles S. E. of Winona. It is the farming, manufacturing and dairying trade cen- Scuthors plements, nery, and Chronie Led Sta and aily Canadian and a long at hickory, n's crocier deer-skin cross the different kennis rac rm a bag.
Be of indiahes in cirabout six the top of ment the the gon he ball off sown side on to ca ayed in th inent and onored icero. th ine Instit nical LA CROSSE ter for Western Wisconsin, Southern Minnesota, and Northern Iowa, has manufactories of agricultural implements, automobile parts, stoves, machinery, and lumber, shingle, and lath mills. The city contains the Asylum for Chronic Insane, St. Francis and United States Marine Hospitals, and Washburn Public Library; and has electric light and street railroad plants, National and other banks, many churches, daily and weekly and monthly periodicals. Pop. (1910) 30,417; (1920) 30,363.
LA CROSSE (lä kros), a Canadian field game played with a ball and a long stick (five or six feet) of light hickory, bent at the top like a bishop's crozier (French crosse). Strings of deer-skin are across stretched diagonally hooked portion of the crosse in different are stretched diagonally across the directions, forming a network-not so tightly as in a battledore or tennis racquet, nor so loosely as to form a bag. Only one ball is employed, made of india rubber, and eight or nine inches in circumference. Posts or poles about six feet high, with a small flag at the top of each, complete the equipment. The players are usually 12 on each side, but their number, as well as the distance of the goals apart, is nearly optional. The object of the game is for one side to drive the ball through their opponents' goal.
The ball must not be touched with the hand or foot, but is scooped up from the ground with the bent end of the crosse, on which it is carried horizontally, while the player runs toward one of the goals, trying to dodge his antagonists. If it seems prudent, he pitches the ball off his crosse toward one of his own side who may be in a better position to carry it toward the goal. It is played in the United States.